The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English LiteratureSubtitled Language and sexual difference in Middle English literature', this book explores the relationship between sexual and historical fantasies in several medieval English texts: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Life and the Passion of St Juliana, and several of the secular Harley Lyrics. Margherita takes feminist, psychoanalytic and post-structuralist angles in her criticism, applying current theoretical and political concerns to these texts. |
Contents
Margery Kempe and the Pathology of Writing | 15 |
Body and Metaphor in the Middle English Juliana 1353 | 43 |
Women and Riot in the Harley Lyrics | 62 |
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The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English ... Gayle Margherita No preview available - 1994 |
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